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The owner of such Boise, Idaho radio brands as "101.9 The Bull," "Wild 101," "My 102.7," and "BOB FM" has enjoyed formidable ratings and revenue success against such national publicly traded companies as Townsquare Media and Cumulus Media in addition to the Kalmenson family's Lotus Communications. Now, this locally owned and operated radio group based in Boise is putting ownership into the hands of its 46 employees.

On Sept. 7, a Republican Senator from Kentucky introduced a bill designed to give local broadcasters and newspapers "much-needed relief from outdated government restrictions." It seems the bill went largely ignored until late Tuesday, when one veteran trade journalist discovered it. But, is it DOA?

Mays founded the San Antonio Broadcasting Company back in 1972. The name was later changed to Clear Channel Communications. Today, it’s known as iHeartMedia.

In early May, RBR+TVBR first shared the news that TelevisaUnivision would be assuming ownership of a streaming platform that's home to films and series en español from a sibling of sorts, thanks to common ownership by Searchlight Capital Partners L.P. Now, that deal has closed, as Hemisphere Media Group claims it has gotten shareholder approval of its acquisition by Searchlight. One institutional stock holder disputes that shareholder OK.

There's a new man in power at Salem Media Group who has the ultimate say-so of what will transpire at its Broadcast Media division. The appointment of Allen Power is just one change, however, as part a realignment of the publicly traded company's AM and FM radio station unit. These changes will commence at the beginning of 2023.

Most recently, he led the Music and Non-Scripted Entertainment division at TelevisaUnivision, driving the group's global strategy. Now, the man known around the company as "Nacho" has been named President of U.S. Networks.

SiriusXM is on the hunt for more people willing to pay for its own music channels, and a wide array of specialty programming that ranges from Howard Stern to live sports action. To Simply Wall Street, that could be a sign that investing in SIRI may be worthy of a watchlist addition.

It was a key piece of legislation that the National Association of Broadcasters has been advocating for since Curtis LeGeyt assumed the leadership role from former Senator Gordon Smith. Now, Smith's former Republican colleagues have slayed legislation introduced by Amy Klobuchar that would have allowed radio and TV stations to collectively negotiate with "Big Tech" platforms to get what LeGeyt tells RBR+TVBR is "fair value" for content distribution.

The broadcast television network owned by Paramount Global is launching a major drive to give "historically underrepresented" performers increased opportunities on television, beginning in the ready-to-start 2022-2023 broadcast season.

He was the first chief anchor for Cable News Network, today known simply as CNN, when it was launched by Ted Turner on June 1, 1980. His reporting ranged from the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in May 1989 to live coverage of the Persian Gulf War from Baghdad in early 1991. On February 28, 2001, he retired from CNN. Now, the world is remembering Bernard Shaw, who died Wednesday of pneumonia.

On August 12, a security news publication published an article "sounding the alarm on Emergency Alert System flaws." Since then, the story has made the rounds across social media, leading RBR+TVBR to share the article via Twitter. It appears FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel may have read the piece. On Wednesday, Rosenworcel shared with her colleagues a proposed action to bolster the security of the nation’s public alert and warning systems.

Many are predicting the total political advertising dollars associated with the 2022 mid-term election season to be record-smashing, with broadcast television still very strong. What are the markets that are sizzling, with respect to political ad dollar activity? Newly released projections shared exclusively with RBR+TVBR show where all of the heat is from coast to coast.

Ed Stolz seeks to emerge from Chapter 11 reorganization in a Nevada U.S. bankruptcy court — the judicial body that ordered Larry Patrick to return a trio of FMs to Stolz so this court could fully assuage his assets. With a Federal Appeals Court affirming a California District Court ruling that Patrick's receivership was valid, Patrick and his attorneys are shifting their battle to the Silver State. There, they've assailed Stolz's submitted plan to get out of bankruptcy.

While viewers within a NEXTGEN TV's broadcast signal stand ready to enjoy RUN3TV and other features and TV station licensees look forward to a plethora of new revenue generation tools, the NAB believes a sunset of an ATSC 1.0 requirement will help push NEXTGEN TV along a bit quicker — even as recessionary talk clouds U.S. consumer activity and the global ad market.

It's been said in the journalism business that the best way to disseminate not-so-great news is to "dump it" on a Friday afternoon, in particular before a three-day holiday weekend. Is that what the FCC just did with the late Friday release of a Report and Order and Notice of Inquiry on the FCC's Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for fiscal year 2022?